| People of the Ghetto

Zdzisław Askanas (1910–1974)

Cardiologist, professor of medical sciences, founder of the Warsaw Academic School of Cardiology; defender of the Modlin Fortress, underground activist,

Elizabeth Ettinger (1925–2005)

Novelist, literature professor, biographer, and member of the resistance during World War II. Born on September 19th

Anastazy Matywiecki (1914–1944)

Lawyer, poet, social activist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising. He was born on September 17, 1914 in Kobryń, the son of

Marek Abraham Rudnicki (1927–2004)

A graphic designer, book illustrator, and caricaturist, he was born on January 25, 1927, into an assimilated Jewish family; his father, Stanisław

Joseph Kaplan (1913-1942)

Resistance activist, member and co-founder of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) and the Anti-Fascist Bloc, collaborator of Oneg Shabbat, manager

Luba Blum Bielicka (1905/1906-1973)

A nurse, social nursing instructor, and activist, she was born into a traditional Jewish family, the eldest of ten siblings. She began

Kalonimus Kalman Szapiro (1889-1943)

Tzaddik, rabbi of Piaseczno, one of the rabbis of the Warsaw Ghetto, innovative educator, Torah scholar and commentator. Born on 20

Pnina Grynszpan-Frymer (1923-2016)

A resistance activist during World War II and a heroine of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, she was born the youngest of seven.

Dawid Wdowiński (1895–1970)

Neurologist and psychiatrist, member of the Ha-Cohar organization, co-founder of the Jewish Military Union, and hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Dawid

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